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How to Train Your Dragon: How To Cheat A Dragon's Curse: Book 4 Kindle Edition

by Cressida Cowell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Read the HILARIOUS books that inspired the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON films!

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero.

Hiccup's best friend Fishlegs thinks he has a nasty cold, but Old Wrinkly has diagnosed . . . VORPENTITIS, caused by the sting of a Venomous Vorpent, which is pretty much ALWAYS FATAL!

The only antidote is the Vegetable-that-No-one-Dares-Name - the POTATO. But the only way for Hiccup to find the cure is to face Norbert the Nutjob and the terrifying Sea Dragon, the DOOMFANG.
Can Hiccup survive the quest to save his best friend - and discover how to cheat a dragon's curse?

How to Train Your Dragon is a major award-winning DreamWorks film series. There is also a new live action movie due to be released in 2025. The TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies and Cartoon Network.

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  1. Reading age
    7 - 10 years
  2. Part of series
    How to Train Your Dragon
  3. Print length
    256 pages
  4. Language
    English
  5. Publisher
    Hodder Children's Books
  6. Accessibility
    Learn more
  7. Publication date
    June 29 2017
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  11. ISBN-13
    978-1444941197
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Fiercely exciting and laugh-aloud funny―The Times

Another rip-rollocking tale with crazy characters, juicy dialogue and graphic, scratchy illustrations―Junior

Jam-packed with clever jokes and humorous drawings and scenes, it is just the ticket for hours of bedtime reading―Shetland Times

Outrageously funny and inventive, here's a novel with huge appeal...It's hard to beat this story for sheer entertainment and larger than life, distinctive - and differentiated - characters―Books For Keeps

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Cressida Cowell would have loved to have had a dragon as a pet when she was a child. Cressida lives in London with her husband Simon ` who is not THAT Simon Cowell!` and her children, Maisie, Clementine and Alexander.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07568RTG5
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hodder Children's Books
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 29 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.2 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1444941197
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Part of series ‏ : ‎ How to Train Your Dragon
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 7 - 10 years
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 out of 5 stars 1,408 ratings

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Cressida Cowell

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Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the bestselling How to Train Your Dragon book series. Her latest book The Wizards of Once is an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton.

How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 38 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The first book in Cressida's new series, The Wizards of Once (also signed by DreamWorks), is a number one bestseller.

Cressida is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now' magazine's 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity.

She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.

Check out Cressida's website: www.cressidacowell.co.uk

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  • Lynn
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    Grand daughter very happy
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  • Heidi Cadue
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it!
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    Dragons rule
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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    Great.
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  • melanie
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    great part of great series of books
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  • 鶹 Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great series for young readers
    Reviewed in Canada on September 21, 2014
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    My grandson loved this series, a great way to keep him reading
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  • 鶹 Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars very good.
    Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2020
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    very good i enjoyed this book very much. I've alwaysd loved dragons and I enjoy it when the 'hero' wins by smarts.
    please write more
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  • Jason
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Series for young readers.
    Reviewed in Canada on September 7, 2017
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    My 9 YO is plowing through this series; she just loves it. She's enjoying the dragon collector cards and has made up a little game of it.
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  • BEEN
    5.0 out of 5 stars best book ever
    Reviewed in India on May 25, 2020
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    my experience to this book is that it is superb , amazing , awesome and fun to read · it is 100% good and 0% bad
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  • J. Funnell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brought for my middle grandson
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2024
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    He loves this series of books.
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  • Garrett
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another Gem from Cressida Cowell
    Reviewed in Germany on May 25, 2025
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    In this fourth adventure, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces perhaps his biggest challenge yet when a deadly threat puts his best friend in danger. To save him, Hiccup must track down a legendary cure, all while dealing with Viking rivalries, ancient secrets, and the usual dragon chaos.

    My son (8) and I have absolutely loved the first four How to Train your Dragon books, including this latest one. Cowell just never seems to run out of new and fun ideas for her stories about Hiccup, Fishlegs, Toothless and co. She finds just the right mix of crass humor, over-the-top characters and genuine feelings and relationships.

    If you've read the first three HTTYD books, I can strongly recommend continuing with this fourth book, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse. 5/5 stars.
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  • EmptyNester
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully Fun - Just Like the Previous 3
    Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2007
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    This is the 4th book in this series about Hiccup Horrendous, unlikely heir to the Viking "throne" of the Hooligan tribe. These books were supposedly written as memoirs by Hiccup when he was an old man (and later found and translated by the author). This makes them less scary because readers know he couldn't have died during any of his adventures. Hiccup is not large and scary like the other viking boy bullys, but he has a great brain and is loyal. He is also a "dragon whisperer." As in the previous 3 books, he uses his talents to help his tribe. He ends up "saving the day" and comes one step closer to growing up and becoming chief, like his father. These books are full of dragons, sword play and "elementary boy" humor. For example, in every book something (ie, a monster) blows up or blows its nose, and the characters end up covered in disgusting snot or slime. They are also full of action (ie, running from dragons, being captured by enemies, etc.) My son, 8, LOVED this book as much as he loved the previous 3. He has always enjoyed playing with pirate and knight toys and reading books about them. Now he has added Vikings to this list (they are similar, after all). My son is a "reluctant reader," but he'll sometimes sit and read about Hiccup for 45 minutes (that's a lot for him.) This book is pur fantasy. I recommend it for any child who enjoys fantasy, pirates. and/or vikings.
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  • Damian
    3.0 out of 5 stars not the best
    Reviewed in Australia on November 13, 2020
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    its not as funny but has more twists then any of them hiccup has to find a antidote for foshlegs because he got stung by a venomas vorpent.
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